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  "format": "delx/intent-card/v1",
  "id": "unit-economics-api",
  "intent": "Unit Economics for an agent workflow",
  "title": "Unit Economics API for agents",
  "description": "Calculate gross profit and margin from per-unit price and cost. Use it as a bounded preflight or analysis step inside an enterprise agent workflow before data, policy, integration, security, or commercial decisions reach production. Returns deterministic machine-readable JSON for $0.003 USDC via x402 on Base. Execution is first-party, local-only, stateless, memory-only, and has no paid upstream or input retention. Results are advisory; the caller remains responsible for authorization and production controls.",
  "keywords": [
    "Unit Economics API",
    "Unit Economics for agents",
    "pay per result API",
    "x402 API",
    "no API key"
  ],
  "updated_at": "2026-08-06",
  "canonical_url": "https://commerce.delx.ai/intents/unit-economics-api",
  "machine_url": "https://commerce.delx.ai/intents/unit-economics-api.json",
  "recommendation": {
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    "service_name": "Delx Unit Economics",
    "method": "POST",
    "resource": "https://api.delx.ai/api/v1/x402/unit-economics",
    "price_usdc": "0.003",
    "payment_protocols": [
      "x402",
      "mpp"
    ],
    "input_schema": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "price": {
          "description": "Input field: price.",
          "type": "number"
        },
        "cost": {
          "description": "Input field: cost.",
          "type": "number"
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "price",
        "cost"
      ],
      "additionalProperties": true
    },
    "example_input": {
      "price": 0.01,
      "cost": 0.002
    },
    "example_output": {
      "schema": "delx/util-unit-economics/v1",
      "price": 0.01,
      "cost": 0.002,
      "gross_profit": 0.008,
      "gross_margin_percent": 80,
      "profitable": true
    },
    "agentcash": {
      "buy": "npx agentcash@latest fetch https://api.delx.ai/api/v1/x402/unit-economics -m POST -H 'x-delx-source: intent-card-unit-economics-api' --max-amount 0.003 -b '{\"price\":0.01,\"cost\":0.002}'",
      "max_amount_usdc": "0.003"
    }
  },
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    "header": "x-delx-source",
    "value": "intent-card-unit-economics-api"
  },
  "evidence": {
    "paid_openapi": "https://api.delx.ai/openapi.x402.json",
    "governed_portfolio": "https://api.delx.ai/x402-portfolio.json",
    "live_contract": "https://api.delx.ai/api/v1/x402/unit-economics"
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}